Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 25, 2024

Justin Draeger A vendor working for the federal government incorrectly calculated a financial aid formula for more than 200,000 students, the department noted. Department of Education. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

The suit accuses the school’s faculty and administration of snubbing high-profile white male applicants. The latest attack on efforts to support diversity comes in the form of a lawsuit targeting Northwestern University’s law school. The 30-page complaint gets so many facts wrong that it is difficult to know where to begin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Aspen subsequently began two intensive fellowships that select senior administrators with the qualities of exceptional presidents and teach lessons from the field about how to achieve exceptional and equitable levels of student success. Why should new reform efforts focus on leadership? A national leadership development strategy matters.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The federal government, on the other hand, uses a straightforward numerical definition to classify as Hispanic Serving Institutions any two- or four-year nonprofit degree-granting college or university where enrollment is at least 25% Latine. Investing in diversity among faculty, staff and administrators is a critical component.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Dr. Lorelle Espinosa Velez hopes that faculty, administrators and policy makers at graduate schools read the report, recognize the barriers that exist for Black and Hispanic STEM PhD students and make an effort to remove those barriers. Those institutions don’t receive as much research funding from the federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Per federal law, Black students were brought into schools that formerly, predominantly or exclusively served white students, an endeavor that forever changed public schooling in the country. “It That was the job of federal government to ensure that the ruling was followed. Some federal enforcement did still occur.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations. We take a look at institutions that have excelled at graduating a diverse student base.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Lee said there is concern of funds from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), CARES Act, and other federal stimulus funds ending. We’re having discussions with policy makers across the spectrum from state and federal [government] … about the fact that we need to be supporting our students through this journey,” Lee said.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

The federal government responded to the changing higher education landscape in the early part of this decade by making significant grant funds available to colleges and universities to promote student safety and help institutions offer remote and hybrid instruction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The federal government projects that more than 203,000 new registered nurse (RN) positions will be created each year from 2021 to 2031, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). In January, nurses from two of New York City’s private hospitals went on strike.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

Image: The Biden administration’s $90 billion plan to provide free community college likely won’t make it through Congress, but supporters of the effort say the request shows it’s a priority for the administration and helps to continue the national conversation about the policy.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 28, 2025

The recent decision to have the Small Business Administration (SBA) take over the federal student loan portfolio has sent shockwaves through the world of education finance. At the heart of this shift is the role of Maximus AidVantage , one of the major student loan servicers handling federal loans. Note the barbed wire fence.]

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

” Reynolds added that if the state had “provided the federal funding as requested and it was used to finance debt or other impermissible uses according to US Treasury guidelines, the state and taxpayers could have been liable for potential repayment to the federal government.”

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University Business

MARCH 26, 2024

As a result, federal officials believe SARA “prioritizes administrative convenience over student and taxpayer protection,” failing to protect them in the process. Institutions leveraging out-of-state online learning may face deeper state regulation constraints due to a proposal from the Department of Education.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2024

Higher education leaders frequently cite the pressure they have to deal with from a caustic public, the media and even state and federal governments that are skeptical about their offerings. institutions. An average of 55% of students and parents said financial aid would be “extremely” necessary.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

The for-profit Living Arts College closed abruptly after the shutdown of the embattled Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools and blamed the federal government for its demise. Recent federal data shows that Presentation enrolled a total of 577 students in fall 2021. But it couldn’t survive the virus.

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University Business

MARCH 21, 2023

CARES funding provided to the State of West Virginia on non-COVID-related expenses such that it would violate federal law/regulation, violate ethics standards, or would be subject to claw back at some time in the future for improper application,” wrote Senator Eric Tarr. 30, 2022, had to be returned to the federal government.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

Administrators have said only 23 current faculty and staff members will lose their jobs. The crisis had been partly obscured, he said, by COVID-19 relief funds that had flowed from the federal government during the coronavirus pandemic—money that the university couldn’t count on for long.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We are recognized by the federal government as both a predominantly Black institution and as a Hispanic-serving institution. While administrations at both institutions have said they would like to see the mission preserved, there are three steps both administrations must take to make sure this actually happens.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In practice, these experiences require a level of administrative and logistical effort that is difficult for faculty to manage. Partner with local governments. Confronted with the apocalyptic climate narrative dominating popular media, ignorance has been replaced by a gripping fear of the future, particularly among young people.

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2023

Students and the federal government have waged lawsuits and called for stronger oversight of the edtech company. Pending federal regulation Last year, several U.S. However, 2U has gained notoriety recently for allegedly engaging in deceptive recruitment strategies and contributing to students’ high debt load.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

One of the complexities of college leadership is that a president typically has approximately nine different constituencies (students, parents, alumni, donors, faculty, staff, local, state and federal government, at the least) whose views are not only not aligned, but frequently diametrically opposed to one another. Why is that?

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 12, 2025

Risepoint's Ownership: The Vistria Group and Its Ties to the Obama Administration A key piece of Risepoints corporate structure lies in its ownership by Vistria Group, a Chicago-based venture capital firm with close ties to political and corporate elites, including former President Barack Obama.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It said it would look for evidence of “sustained research quality,” including adequate governance and investment. “University executives and governing bodies are extremely likely to view university college status as a demotion,” said Ant Bagshaw, a senior adviser with LEK Consulting.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

The district court compared the actions in the state to events depicted in George Orwell’s novel 1984 , and rejected the Florida public higher education governing board’s “positively dystopian” argument that professors possessed academic freedom only as long as they expressed viewpoints approved by the state.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 12, 2023

Since any associated policy changes could affect a much wider set of services than originally expected, we thought that we’d use this space to share what we think are the key points that university leaders across higher education need to understand about the potential impact of recent and anticipated actions by the federal government.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 17, 2025

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Education paused collections on defaulted federal student loans. 8 The Social Security Administration calls the program one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in our nation's history. Department of the Treasury called the Treasury Offset Program.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance.

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University Business

OCTOBER 9, 2023

believes government officials are waging “coordinat[ed] efforts to unjustly target GCU” in response to its lawsuit against the Department over its nonprofit status. ” The post This for-profit believes it’s being “targeted” by the government appeared first on University Business.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Department only gets involved to determine if the institution has the financial stability and the administrative capability to manage student aid programs, which is one of the main reasons colleges and universities apply for accreditation. Food and Drug Administration, which performs its processes internally.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 4, 2023

The legislation basically asked, “Why doesn’t the Department of Education have an accreditation process for determining what institutions are qualified for the same way that the federal government decides what drugs are suitable for use in medical treatment through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration?”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

Colorado automatically grants associate’s degrees to these students instead of waiting for them to apply or for a college administrator to make them aware of the opportunity. For example, what would happen if a person who started in a four-year program completed their degree instead of stopping out before their mid-20s?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

From a macro perspective, higher education oversight operates as a three-legged stool held up by the states, the federal government and accrediting agencies, collectively known as the triad, all charged with protecting the interests of students, taxpayers and the public.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It accredits all higher education institutions not affiliated with the federal government by taking them through a series of quality assurance steps and offering them a license to operate. Even the Degree programs offered by federal (government-run) institutions are now also accredited.

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EAB

JUNE 12, 2023

February Department of Education (ED) Dear Colleague Letter massively increases ED oversight (for now) In the last year, the federal government has taken several key actions that sowed confusion among Professional, Continuing, and Online (PCO) leaders, made worse by the February 2023 ED Dear Colleague Letter.

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